Evelin Velasquez's artistic process takes months. It begins by finding a place that is perfectly run-down.
"I look for places in ruins, where time has done the score on them," Velasquez, of Medellin, Colombia, said through an interpreter....

A man and a woman move around a dance floor in an embrace so tight their upper bodies are one, their eyes closed, their legs moving in impromptu steps, but so coordinated that it seems she is reading his mind.
The two are not lovers. Then again, maybe...

SOUTHINGTON — Many middle-aged executives-turned-entrepreneurs start working for themselves because they were downsized, or thought they might be laid off soon.
By contrast, Carlos Lara, 57, bought a business with a brother so that so that his wife could...

Dr. Efraim Gomez-Zapata advertised himself as a pioneer in laser liposuction in the Hispanic community — at a discount rate, no less.
But state health officials say the Stamford doctor's cut-rate surgeries came at a steep price.
Twice in two years,...

BOGOTA, Colombia For almost six months, Leiver Padilla Mendoza has listened to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vilify him on national television. The president has accused the 34-year-old of being the cold-blooded paramilitary assassin behind...

SONSON, Colombia As a child soldier for Colombia's largest guerrilla group, Jairo watched his fellow fighters seed trails and pastures with anti-personnel mines designed to kill and maim. Sometimes they made careful maps indicating where the...

BOGOTA, Colombia U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Colombia allegedly participated in sex parties with prostitutes paid for by local drug cartels and received money, gifts and weapons from the groups they were investigating, according...

A vibrant stream of giant murals greets people heading in from Bogota's main airport or walking down the cobblestone streets of colonial downtown. Stencils of pineapple-shaped grenades and AK-47 rifles arranged in a rainfall formation allude to Colombia's...

The new labeling of the world's most-popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that is the cornerstone of the U.S.-backed war on drugs. The International Agency for Research on...

Catherine Cadena, a Colombian driver who uses Uber's car-booking phone application, was returning from Bogota's Estereo Picnic music festival with two passengers last week when she drove into an ambush. Three taxis blocked her way, and the drivers got...

Officials, families and media reports have named some of the 20 foreign tourists killed in the Tunis museum attack. Here is a partial list of the victims who have been identified so far. ___ COLOMBIA Javier Camelo, 28, and his mother, Miriam Martinez....

In a warehouse at the edge of this city near Venezuela's western border, the load of valuable contraband sits in boxes ready to be shuttled the few miles (kilometers) into Colombia where it will fetch an impressive profit. This impending shipment is a...

BOGOTA, Colombia As government and guerrilla negotiators begin the 34th round of peace talks in Cuba on Tuesday in hopes of ending Colombia's half-century conflict, they're going to have a powerful force behind them: momentum. In the last several...

Early morning fireworks burst over Venezuela's capital Thursday for a commemoration of Hugo Chavez on the second anniversary of his death, even as economic crisis threatens to undo his legacy of lifting many out of poverty. President Nicolas Maduro,...

The contrast between then and now in the fourth floor galleries of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art couldn't be more striking.
Where the museum most recently displayed, in essence, the overstuffed artifacts closet of the rock star David Bowie, now...